Globular clusters are often described as ancient, tightly bound fossils of the early Milky Way. It has been believed that ...

This Hubble image shows the star cluster NGC 1850, located about 160,000 light-years away. For this image, five filters were used with the camera to gather data. Two of the filters were at ...

Astronomers are drawing attention to a Christmas Tree-shaped cluster of stars glowing inside one of the Milky Way’s most ...

The holiday spirit is pervasive and undeniable, with festivities reaching 200,000 light years away. Celestial bodies are celebrating. Just in time for Christmas, NASA spotted a star cluster mimicking ...

A stellar two-fer: See two star clusters in the morning sky and bring a pair of binoculars. Last month I wrote about the constellation Orion. Using the three stars in the belt of Orion, follow the ...

A trio of massive, young star clusters found embedded in a star cloud may shed light on the formation of super-star clusters and globular clusters. The discovery, made with images taken with the ...

"This view includes new data and is the first to combine Hubble observations made at infrared, optical and ultraviolet wavelengths." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The Red Planet will take you to the doorstep of one of the sky's brightest but lesser-known star clusters. Mars shines brightly above the Beehive Cluster in the constellation Cancer on Dec. 1. For the ...

The Cosmic Gems arc as observed by the JWST. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the Cosmic Spring collaboration. The history of how stars and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged Earendel, thought to be most distant star seen in the universe so far. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic ...

the constellation Orion with the Orion Nebula Cluster as the central “star” in the sword of Orion, the Pleiades and the Hyades. All three open clusters are highlighted by large yellow circles. Orion ...